The Voice coaches confused by contestants’ genders in blind auditions

The Voice coaches, Jessie J, Sir Tom Jones, Will.i.am and Danny O’Donoghue, found themselves confused by contestants’ gender in the show’s blind audition stage, it has been revealed.

The Voice mentors were left red-faced after mistaking men for women and vice-versa in the blind auditions (Picture: BBC)

The Voice sees the mentors listen to aspiring singers without actually being able to see them, which The Script frontman Danny admitted often results in a number of ‘hairy moments’.

He told BANG Showbiz: ‘It is sometimes shocking when you turn around; the voice often comes in various different shapes and sizes. I ask everyone to watch the show and close their eyes and do the same thing.

‘Sometimes it sounds like a 16-year-old girl who could do with a bit of coaching and then you turn around and it’s actually a 40-year-old man. You just never know so there are a few hairy moments!’

Jessie explained the blind auditions could at times be problematic as she turned down a teenage opera singer because she thought she was in her forties.

She added: ‘It’s crazy because sometimes you don’t know if they’re a boy or girl, tall or small. There was one girl who was an opera singer who was 17 and sounded like she was 45 which was why I didn’t pick her because I didn’t feel like I could coach her.

She’d never even had a singing lesson but just started mimicking Katherine Jenkins!’